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This thesis has contributed to the understanding of the discourse of the social benefit system in light of the Participation Act. While earlier research had been done on the experiences, there had been no research to the actual language of social benefit policies. This thesis therefore adds some valuable contributions to the scientific debate. Firstly, this thesis has shown how diverse the discourse of the social benefit system actually is and that it consists of all three theorized aspects: responsabilization, meritocratization and criminalization. These three aspects overlap each other in several instruments, such as the compensative activity. This is an important finding, as this instrument is perceived in previous research as merely meritocratic. It was shown however, from the results, that even in the aspects of responsabilization and meritocratization a criminalizing

50 aspect was present as well. The discourse of the Dutch social benefit system resembles all three aspects, a notion which should not be overlooked in future research. Secondly, in the case of this research, the aspect of criminalization was represented in abundance in the selected documents. This thesis therefore offers a first insight in the criminalizing practices of the Dutch social benefit system and proves that the basis for the discontent of social benefit recipients is not fiction, but fact. These findings do however open up new doors and raise new questions. First of all, there is not yet a research in the Netherlands mapping the experiences of social benefit recipients with the current social benefit system. The understanding of the life world of social benefit recipients in this regard would offer great insight for future policy implementations. In addition, regarding the text consumption and social practice dimension, research among municipal officers would provide great insight on how the municipal ordinances are received and put into practice. Menno Fenger (2017) already concluded in one research among a few municipalities, that the attitude of client managers towards both the policies and the social benefit recipients must change: ‘Client managers must find the most logical thread that must be drawn. For example, if someone says, I never go outside but I would like to, the client manager can see if anything can be done about that with careful steps. That does not have to be mandatory voluntary work for eight hours, drinking a cup of coffee once a week would perhaps suffice as a great start’ (Sociale Vraagstukken, 2017). After all, nobody has ever helped someone by kicking him when he is down.

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